While Allegra Spender would not say which party she would support in a hung parliament, Dave Sharma admitted he cannot control Liberal policy | michaelkoziol
Liberal MP Dave Sharma branded it “the most important question” for his independent challenger Allegra Spender to answer: which party would she support to form government in a hung parliament?
“I haven’t made up my mind. It depends what happens at the negotiating table at the day,” said Spender. “I’m open to work with either side of government.” But it was not something he would do lightly. “I’m running as a Liberal candidate. You should expect me to behave as a Liberal member of parliament,” Sharma said.Spender’s line of attack - and a consistent theme of independents campaigning against moderate Liberals - was that Sharma may profess liberal values but mostly votes in line with his conservative Coalition colleagues, such as Barnaby Joyce.
Sharma had made limited comment on Deves, but at Thursday’s debate he said her remarks were “reprehensible and should be condemned and withdrawn, and I’m glad she has withdrawn them”.Asked if Deves should be dumped, Sharma said: “I don’t have a say in that. I didn’t select her as a candidate, I don’t get a say in whether she’s endorsed or not.”
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